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A segment of the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War, is installed outside the State Department in Washington, D.C. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Visitors to the Berlin Wall can use a newly developed augmented reality app to bring the structure's difficult and divisive past to life. The app has been developed to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Sharon Reich reports.
Germany is to put on trial the only suspect held over what it calls a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping by Vietnamese secret agents that has badly bruised bilateral ties. IMAGES
Classic Soviet cars, spy toys, and even archives of Checkpoint Charlie border guards, these were just a fraction of the items on display at the Wende Museum of the Cold War as it opened its new collection in Los Angeles on Sunday. Some 100,000 Cold War artefacts from 1945 to 1991 were exhibited to the public in Culver City.
Global social media giant Facebook has partnered with a Chinese selfie app called Meitu to bring Augmented Reality features to the Facebook camera. The partnership was formed under the banner of Facebook's AR Studio Beta to launch three exclusive camera effects, called Selfie from the Future, Meitu Family and Instant Glam. Since the first Meitu app was released in 2008, Meitu has registered over 1.1 billion unique downloads and records over 500 million active users. The Chinese tech company is valued at over 5.3 billion dollars.
Technology is moving at such a rapid pace that it can be quite hard to keep up with all the new inventions. Drone have become a mainstay in popular culture in the last few years, but some scientists and engineers from Russia's Voronezh State University may have just invented a new way to pilot them. This drone prototype is designed to be flown with the help of augmented reality glasses that allow the wearer to guide the motion of the quadcopter simply by looking in the direction that he or she wants the drone to go. The team began working on the product began seven years ago but have only now reached the point of testing out their prototype model. With the success of their prototype, the team is now working on improving usability and design, with the hope of exporting their product abroad.
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